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The data security company surveyed more than 1,000 IT and IT security practitioners to assess the state of cloud in the enterprise.

It found a third of respondents have experienced more security breaches with the public cloud than with on-premises applications. In addition, 90 percent still express concern about public cloud security.

The report also exposed other interesting facts, including that there are greater fears about employee misuse and access control than malware and hacking. In addition, Microsoft is making big gains in the enterprise, pushing past Google as an email provider and challenging Salesforce as the cloud service of choice.

Box CEO Aaron Levie better have had an extra cup of coffee before he arrived at his company’s Silicon Valley offices this morning. Chances are he was staring at the NASDAQ ticker all morning -- his company’s shares are down a whopping 15.64 percent (as of 3:03 EDT).

Some analyst consensus for $Box non-GAAP EPS for Q4’15 had wrong share count; FactSet had estimate of -$1.99; at -$1.65, Box beat by $0.34.

Clinton Gormley and Zachary Tong published an excellent new book on Elasticsearch. It weighs in at over 700 pages -- a commitment for even the most dedicated reader -- but worth the effort for those interested in the topic.

In it, the authors describe the information retrieval functionality of Elasticsearch. They describe several hundred functional elements in the book. The skill lies in knowing which to implement given the nature of the content and the type of query that will be used. This requires information science/information retrieval skills, not developer skills. There's a shortage of these skills, but they are essential in four areas of open source search implementation.

Is your SharePoint content secure? More importantly, do you know how to assess your content security?

Given the number of SharePoint environments, it’s likely that a lot of people would answer "no."

Metalogix, however, has just released a new tool it claims will help. The new Insider Threat Index (ITI) offers SharePoint managers insight into their content security based on nine metrics.

Before creating the ITI, Metalogix surveyed a large number of enterprises. It found many are at risk of major data breaches.

Steve Marsh, director of product marketing for Metalogix and an expert in SharePoint migration and management technologies, said governance, monitoring, and compliance are still major headaches for many enterprises.

Go ahead: Try to avoid conversation about the cloud. Odds are it will be impossible.

The cloud has evolved from a buzzword to an enterprise essential. But most companies have embraced the cloud a little too enthusiastically, a new study from Telstra shows.

Telstra, an Australian telecommunications company, found a disconnect between cloud desires and realities. Specifically, more than seven out of 10 IT decision makers want to store all their data on a single cloud provider. But the majority instead use three vendors.

While more vendors theoretically reduce risks by creating redundancies, too many clouds — like too many cooks — spoil the soup of enterprise simplicity.

Destruction of significant, unique objects from a file share is rarely the first step in the destruction phase of the life cycle of the record. Usually the process of elimination from deduplication to significant, unique object deletion is multi-faceted.

OpenText announced the release of a new contract management solution. It will enable enterprises to automate the entire contract process and related tasks by pulling together a number of technologies from OpenText’s enterprise information management portfolio.

The new product offers contract process management — for the smallest and simplest contract to the most complex contracts for global organizations.

The release comes at an opportune time for legal departments, which we reported last week are struggling with even the simplest document management tasks.

In a statement OpenText noted that its new Contract Center solution offers automation and management of processes from the very first contact through authoring, negotiation, execution, renewal and retention.

There’s a reason why Dropbox is one of the defaults for saving Microsoft Office documents: 35 billion of them already live in the cloud file storage service. And though some might be homework assignments, recipes, directions to soccer fields and such, a large portion of them are about business.

Yet according to a recent survey only nine percent of work documents are stored in a company-sanctioned file sharing service.

This spells h-u-g-e o-p-p-o-r-t-u-n-i-t-y for Dropbox for Business. After all, Dropbox is the unofficial file sharing service used by most workers. All Dropbox for Business needs to do to win the market is to earn IT’s blessing.

More than a third of us are working with documents and collaborating the old fashioned way, via email, printing and editing, hand signing and scanning -- you get the idea. So says a survey conducted by Nitro and the PDF Association. It looked at the way 1200 knowledge workers in 56 countries across 13 industries and 10 professions used documents on the job. And it’s not just small companies that we’re talking about, but those with as many as 10,000 employees as well.

Hats off to Gartner for resisting the temptation to call Advanced Analytics “Analytics 3.0” because no one knows what that means. Some say that 3.0 suggests “analytics for all," referencing “all” as average workers.

Instead, Gartner defines them as “the analysis of all kinds of data using sophisticated quantitative methods (for example, statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation and optimization) to produce insights that traditional approaches to business intelligence (BI) — such as query and reporting — are unlikely to discover."

In other words, advanced analytics are the scalpels used by highly trained data scientists.

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